Introduction to Flash
• Flash and HTML
• How Flash movies work
• Finding your way around Flash
• Setting movie properties

Flash Basics
• Setting the size of the Stage
• Using Vector-based paint and draw tools
• Creating and editing shapes
• Working with shapes and elements
• Grouping elements
• Using symbols for efficiency
• Adapting existing assets for use on the Web

Creating Vector Graphics
• Lines and brush strokes
• Smoothing lines and curves
• The Assistant dialog box
• Using the snap modifyer • Creating and editing colours
• Using gradients and fills
• Creating and editing text
• Breaking apart and reshaping text
• The Inspector palettes

Working with Layers
• Using layer masks
• Locking layers
• Colour coding layers

Creating Simple Animations
• Using the Timeline
• Frames and keyframes
• Different ways of displaying frames
• Using the onion skin buttons
• Using outline colours mode
• Using custom colour sets
• Using the Preview in Context option
• Animating using layers
• Frame by frame animations

Scenes
• Dividing a movie into scenes

Animation Features
• Creating tweened animations
• Shape tweening
• Creating animations along a path
• Using Onion skinning
• Working with markers

Symbols
• Creating and editing symbols
• Symbols and instances
• Assigning properties to instances
• Using the Edit symbol Commands
• Applying transparency to colours and gradients
• Assigning behaviours to symbols
• Giving users control over a movie

Sound
• Importing sound
• Adding sound to a scene
• Synchronising sound
• Adding sound to buttons
• Streaming audio with MP3 compression

Interactivity
• Creating editable text fields
• Collecting & communicating data from your site visitors
• Creating animated buttons
• Adding actions to buttons
• Creating frame actions
• Making interactive links to other scenes and URLs
• Creating pop up menus

Exporting Flash Movies
• Using the Publish command
• Streaming Flash movies
• Using AfterShock • Making Flash-only web pages
• Optimising Flash movies
• Testing movie download performance
• Browser detection

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Interactivity
• Buttons and Actions

Complex Movieclips
• Pop-up menu example

Controlling Movieclips
• Tell Target
• Get Property
• Set Property

Run-time Movieclips
• Duplicate movieclips

Multiple Movies
• Loading Movies
• levels Variables
• Expressions
• Looping
• If Debugging with trace and the output screen

Drag and Drop Movieclips
• An Ecommerce shopping trolley example

Sending Data to the Server
• Getting Data from the server
• Forms Reusable code and arrrays, call

Communicating with External Applications

Bandwidth issues and Preloading Strategies

Structured Planning and Development